Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1856

pg 293       on the new plan of industrial schools.  This house was soon full.  
             Twenty-nine boarders, forty-five day scholars, eleven postulants, 
             twelve novices, and three professed Sisters formed the household 
             towards the end of the December, and arrangements were made for 
             the beginning of January to put them in charge of a magnificent 
             school at St. Paul's, one of the largest parishes of the city.  
             Four hundred little girls were to be placed in the hands of the 
             four Sisters, and two hundred and fifty little boys were to be 
             under the charge of two Brothers of St. Joseph.
                  Since their arrival in the large and beautiful city the 
             Sisters of Holy Cross continued to draw upon themselves the eyes 
             of the public; the interest that had been shown in them from the 
             beginning seemed to grow day by day, and the end of the year found 
             them filled with a reasonable hope of soon being established 
             solidly in a house of their own.